Children's Health

Advancing the Current Recommended Panel of Conditions for Newborn Screening: Committee Report. N. Green, P. Rinaldo, A. Brower, et al., Genetics in Medicine 9(11): November 2007, 792-796. Describes a new process for the nomination and review of conditions to the recommended universal newborn screening panel and calls for nominations. (AHRQ 08-R030)

Annual Report on Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: Focus on Injury-Related Emergency Department Utilization and Expenditures. P. Owens, M. Zodet, T. Berdahl, et al., Ambulatory Pediatrics, 8(4):July-August 2008, 219-240. Examines State differences in children's use of injury-related emergency department (ED) care across 14 States, benchmarking aggregate State estimates against national expenditure estimates for outpatient injury-related ED care. (AHRQ 08-R082)

Compliance with Well-Child Visit Recommendations: Evidence from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2000-2002. T. Selden, Pediatrics 118(6): December 2006, e1766-1778. Examines national compliance rates with recommendations for well-child visits using visit-level data for the period 2000-2002 from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. (AHRQ 07-R019)

The Correlation of Youth Physical Activity with State Policies. J. Cawley, C. Meyerhoefer, D. Newhouse, Contemporary Economic Policy 25(4): October 2007, 506-517. Estimates the correlation of student physical activity with a variety of State policies and the role of State policies in preventing childhood obesity through physical education and availability of parks and recreation. (AHRQ 08-R025)

Diarrhea- and Rotavirus-Associated Hospitalizations Among Children Less Than 5 Years of Age: United States, 1997 and 2000. M. Malek, A. Curns, R. Holman, et al., Pediatrics 117(6): June 2006, 1887-1892. Estimates the number and rate of diarrhea- and rotavirus-associated hospitalizations among U.S. children less than 5 years of age in 1997 and 2000 using the Kids' Inpatient Database, a sample of 10 percent of the uncomplicated births and 80 percent of other pediatric discharges. (AHRQ 07-R004)

A Discrete Choice Decomposition Analysis of Racial and Ethnic Differences in Children's Health Insurance Coverage. Y. Pylypchuk, T. Selden, Journal of Health Economics, 27:July 2008, 1109-1128. Presents a multivariate decomposition analysis of racial and ethnic differences in children's health insurance using the 2004-2005 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. (AHRQ 08-R068)

Do SCHIP Enrollees Stay Insured? K. VanLandeghem, C. Brach. CHIRI Issue Brief No. 7, May 2008, 6 pp. Summarizes findings from a Child Health Insurance Research Initiative (CHIRI) project that studied patterns of insurance coverage for low-income children enrolled in the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) in Kansas and New York. (AHRQ 08-0057)

Explaining Racial and Ethnic Differences in Children's Use of Stimulant Medications. J. Hudson, E. Miller, J. Kirby, Medical Care, 45(11): November 2007, 1068-1075. Documents and explains racial/ethnic differences in the use of stimulant drugs among U.S. children. (AHRQ 08-R044)

Impact of Primary Care Case Management (PCCM) Implementation on Medicaid and SCHIP. K. VanLandeghem, C. Brach. CHIRI Issue Brief No. 8, March 2009, 6 pp. Summarizes findings from a Child Health Insurance Research Initiative (CHIRI™) study of the impact of implementing primary care case management (PCCM) systems in Alabama and Georgia. PCCM systems aim to increase use of well-child and primary care in physicians' offices while decreasing use of specialists and emergency departments. (AHRQ 09-0020)

Infectious Disease Hospitalizations Among Infants in the United States. K. Yorita, R. Holman, J. Sejvar, et al., Pediatrics, 121:February 2008, 244-252. Describes the burden and epidemiologic features of infectious disease hospitalizations among infants younger than 1 year in the United States. (AHRQ 08-R049)

Long-Term Followup After Diagnosis Resulting from Newborn Screening: Statement of the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services' Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders and Genetic Diseases in Newborns and Children. A. Kemper, C. Boyle, J. Aceves, et al., Genetics in Medicine, 10(4):April 2008, 259-261. Identifies key features of followup and describes the four components central to achieving long-term followup of children identified through newborn screening as having heritable disorders. (AHRQ 09-R006)

Max's Magical Delivery. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Discovery Communications, September 2004. A DVD for kids and parents to help fight childhood obesity, sponsored by the AHRQ, CDC, and Discovery Communications. (AHRQ 04-0088-DVD)

Measuring Children's Health Care Quality. L. Simpson, D. Dougherty, D. Krause, et al., American Journal of Medical Quality 22(2): March/April 2007, 80-84. Examines the current status of activities to measure and improve child health care quality and to select priority areas for future work. Discusses the need for consensus development in children's health care quality, as well as increased public and private investment in activities to improve quality of care for children. (AHRQ 07-R051)

Mental Health Needs of Low-Income Children with Special Health Care Needs. K. VanLandeghem, C. Brach, CHIRI Issue Brief No. 9, April 2009, 6 pp. summarizes a Child Health Insurance Research Initiative (CHIRI) study that compared the prevalence of mental health problems among children with special health care needs to family perceptions of mental health needs. (AHRQ 09-0033)

Necrotising Enterocolitis Hospitalisations Among Neonates in the United States. R. Holman, B. Stoll, A. Curns, et al., Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 20:2006, 498-506. Estimates the rate and epidemiology of necrotising enterocolitis—the most common cause of gastrointestinal surgical emergencies among newborns—among infants younger than 1 month hospitalized in the United States. (AHRQ 07-R027)

Not Your Father's PE: Obesity, Exercise, and the Role of Schools. J. Cawley, C. Meyerhoefer, D. Newhouse, Education Next 4: Fall 2006, 61-66. Examines physical education (PE) requirements in schools and the contribution of PE to weight loss and the risk of obesity, as well as what happens when States require students to spend more time in the school gym or on the athletic fields. (AHRQ 07-R020)

Prior Health Care Experiences of Adolescents Who Enroll in SCHIP. J. Klein, E. Shenkman, C. Brach, et al., Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 17(4): November 2006, 789-807. Presents the results of a survey of new adolescent enrollees in the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) in New York and Florida. Participants provided information about their health status, health care use, access, and unmet needs prior to SCHIP enrollment. (AHRQ 07-R032)

Smoking in the Home and Children's Health. S. Hill, L. Liang, Tobacco Control, 17:February 2008, 32-37. Estimates for young children the annual excess health service use, expenditures, and disability bed days for respiratory conditions associated with exposure to smoking in the home in the United States. (AHRQ 08-R050)

Trends in Intussusception Hospitalizations Among U.S. Infants, 1993-2004: Implications for Monitoring the Safety of the New Rotavirus Vaccination Program. J. Tate, L. Simonsen, C. Viboud, et al., Pediatrics, 121(5):May 2008, e1125-e1132. Assesses intussusception hospitalization trends among U.S. infants for 1993-2004, provides estimates of hospitalization rates for intussusception for 2002-2004, and assesses variations in background rates by age, race/ethnicity, and surgical management. (AHRQ 08-R071)

Who Enrolls in Oregon's Premium Assistance Program and How Do They Fare? K. VanLandeghem, C. Brach, J. Bonney, et al., CHIRI™ Issue Brief, No. 6, February 2007, 6 pp. Compares characteristics and health care experiences of enrollees in two Oregon programs that provide health care for low-income children—the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and the Family Health Insurance Assistance Program (FHIAP), Oregon's premium assistance program. (AHRQ 07-0022)

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